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Re: A FrontEnd in C++?

From: Diego Novillo <dnovillo at redhat dot com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>, khalid aggag <khalidaggag at hotmail dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: 19 Aug 2002 10:20:33 -0400
Subject: Re: A FrontEnd in C++?
References: <F37crCgXAC98D6B8MK9000097e3@hotmail.com><20020819074617.GA2010@earth.cs.mu.oz.au> <20020819080229.GE14079@codesourcery.com>

On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 04:02, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Based on the number of problems we have encountered with the Ada front
> end compared to the others, I think that as a matter of project policy
> writing front ends in any language other than C should be discouraged.
> 
I disagree.  If anything, I would encourage languages *other* than C for
writing front ends.  Use the right language for the problem at hand.

C is such a barbaric language for writing compilers.  Too bad we have to
cater to the lowest common denominator.

Diego.

References:
- A FrontEnd in C++?
  - From: khalid aggag
- Re: A FrontEnd in C++?
  - From: Fergus Henderson
- Re: A FrontEnd in C++?
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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